When changing the 10A fuse in my UT131C i noticed these big pads clearly labeled TX and RX.
There are four pads connected in pairs for TX and RX.
Probing the TX pad revealed that the meter is spitting out some serial data - neat!
So i connected my logic analyzer and found out that it's transmitting 10 bytes of data every 500ms at
800 2400 baud.
Didn't take long to notice that the 8-th byte contains the value measured in plain binary.
For example in the 20V range 1.09V will translate to a 109 in binary on the 8-th byte.
So it seems that unlike some other meters this doesn't just dump raw LCD data out the serial port.
Haven't yet delved any deeper into this, but there's sure to be range data and lots of other stuff in the 10 bytes of data that this thing spits out.
Also there's an RX pad on the meter as well, which i assume would be for calibrating?
Haven't found anyone else talking about this, am i the first one to find this out?
Personally i see some use for this for data acquisition and logging.
But the meter has auto power off that i don't know how to disable, perhaps if i tickled the RX port with some null data from time to time the meter wouldn't turn off?
EDIT: if you hold down the HOLD/SEL button when turning the meter on the auto power off disables!